San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-30
EDITORIAL BREvITIKs

THE American Association OF Base
Ballists threaten to strike outside the
diamond field as well asi in. The trouble
seems to be over percentages. Wonder
Abe has the big head and his club has
more percentage Of gas than is accord
ing to Wright
CHICAGO dropped a game to Detroit
yesterday and so retires one notch
down the stick. The "city by the
straits" will hold on to her lead II there
10 anything 10 science, luck and UNI
pires. Chicago and Boston are pressing
hard on the heels of Detroit and the
finish promises to be unusually close.
WILL those who are bowling for
pure ballot In Texas see TO it that they
vote for the registration law which the
20 legislature submits. 1t is only a move
OF mile In the right direction. when il
should have included the whole area OF
the state. Ii 10 move and in the right
direction, and would save San Antonio
from q multitude of municipal trans
gressions.
The general verdict, even OF Powder
ly's warmest friends seems TO be that the
GIN. W. Of the X. of l. has head con-
siderably smaller than the hat he tries
to wear. In attempting to reform law,
society and morals, as well as to correct
labor abuses specifically, his incisOrs
have dissected more than he can masti-
cate. As moral and industrial suasIon-
ist he was q success; as an sutocrat he is
not.
The Invitation craze has struck the
country like the base ball craze, and the
bicycle craze, and the mother Hubbard
craze, and the bridge jumping craze,
and the prohibition craze and all the
rest. Every town with two cross
streets, flag staff and an anvil cannon,
is on Its way to Washington to invite
Grover and Francis to come down and
inspect their bean patch. The craze will
soon die out.
THE Burgess Robinson episode as set
forth In yesterdays LIGHT by letter
from the Hon. W. II. Burgess to DR.
Robinson, merely exemplifles the truth
Of poeticsl conclusion concerning a
cat and dog fight, the moral OF which
was couched as follows: Folks NAV
tnrn up their shoots at this here rhyme.
don't care a durn for that, merely
show that figating pups May tackle the
wrong tom-cat." or this feelin' truth
DIR. Robinson can take due notice and
govern himself accordingly.
DR.. M. GLYNN will find that harsh
words butter no psrsnips. He can rail
against Rome but he cannot roam within
her rail. The unfrocked priest lie still
remaining good Catholic and has an
uncomfortable role cut out. When the
temporary agitstlons Of his political
poverty are ended he may see the folly
and ask again for the vows of poverty
and obedience. So long as he accepts
the theology and spiritual dominion OF
Rome he will feel more at ease to be at
peace with Plus and at war with
George.
Texas Ii mighty big state and there
is all the room 10 IL necessary for rival
editors. There Is not room enough In IL,
however, for the Misrepresentation OF
the Philadelphia Record, which says:
AIN the sunny south the method Of set
ting editorial disputes by fists instead
OF gnns has progressed as far as Mis-.
sissippi. In Texas the editors still stick
to the shotgun" The Record IL mug
wump and under no obligation to lie a.
the Representative of party. IL must
therefore lie from its own innate love OF
Justification. Against such there 10 no
remedy.